Privacy in the workplace – drug testing, employee surveillance, searches, screening, physical exams, polygraphs, etc. – in Belgium, Israel and France are examined in this… Read More »Privacy in the workplace: International perspectives
The author describes the pernicious effects of performance monitoring on employees: its intrusiveness, the lack of notice afforded employees of its use and how the… Read More »Employee privacy, monitoring, and new technologyA union viewpoint
The author distinguishes between the Supreme Court’s finding of a Constitutional right of personal privacy from governmental action and actions by private employers. “Instead of… Read More »Employee privacy, monitoring, and new technologyA management viewpoint
The author discusses the invalidity of the polygraph, the voice stress analyzer, the facial ticometer, the pupillopmeter and other electronic lie-catching apparatus, and considers more… Read More »Modern shamanism and other folderol – The search for certainty
Excerpts from workshops on the admissibility of evidence. The subjects include 1) the grievant’s prior employment record; 2) spotters’ reports; 3) decisions of other tribunals;… Read More »Admissibility of evidence
An examination of polygraphy and the usefulness, reliability and admissibility of polygraphy evidence.
Attorney McFall describes the impediments to ascertaining the truth, and the usefulness of complete and timely pre-hearing disclosure and the production of witnesses with knowledge… Read More »The search for truth: Comment
A survey of the statutory, judicial, and related public employment dispute-settlement developments at the federal, state, and local levels in 1977. It contains a state-by-state… Read More »Significant developments in public employment disputes settlement during 1977: Truth, lie-detectors, and other problems.
The author draws upon Privacy and Freedom (Westin, Athenaeum, 1967) to identify three surveillance techniques: observation, extraction and reproduction, and to discuss the propriety of… Read More »Surveillance and the labor arbitration process
A discussion of hearing procedures and the rules of evidence. [See also the transcript of the open discussion, 1966 page 110.]